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"l S THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., AUGUST 1. 1981
West End Rehab
Project Improves
Housing, Community Spirit
: As government budgets
'for virtually . everything
dbut the military decrease,
President Reagan has urg
d the American people to
"tighten their belts." But
in Durham's West End,
presidents and local church.
Voups are tackling
already poor housing con
'ditions without govern
ment aid.
Every Saturday,
volunteers gather at 612
Arnette Avenue to
rehabilitate the
dilapidated three
apartment house there.
?They are part of the West
End Community
Rehabilitation Project, a
community self-help ef
fort aimed at breaking the
cycle of poor housing in
Jow-income
neighborhoods.
: With the aid of a capital
funds commitment from
the North Carolina Land
Trustess (NCLT), a group
that advocates and aids
self reliance in land and
energy throughout North
Carolina", the West End
'Community Rehab Pro
ject plans to renovate and
provide housing at a cost
neighborhood residents
can afford.
p. In April of 1981, the
ftCLT purchased the
house at 612 Arnette
Avenue for the project
with little money down.
Mortgage payments are
partially offset by the rent
on the one apartment that
is. already occupied. The
jemaining two apartments
;dre scheduled to be oc
cupied by October 1 .
i The project hopes to
keep the cost of rehabilita
tion low through
volunteer labor and dona
tions. It will then pass
these savings on to the
Community through lower
ents or a lower purchase
price. Already the primer
and paint have been
donated by the D.C May
Company; bricks for the
sill have been donated by
Trout & Riggs Construe-,
tion Company; and
Others, including Kane
Construction, have made
tool, material, and money
donations to the project.
-The Duke Memorial
Methodist Youth' Group
worked four Saturdays on
the house and fund raised
over $900 for the project.
The , Durham ' Masjid
Muhammad, Temple Bap
tist Church, .the" NCLT
and the West End Com
munity Action Group
(WECAG) have all pro
vided skilled and unskilled
work crews to help out on
Saturdays.
Mrs. Lucy Zollar of 826
Wilkerson Avenue has
three times made lunch for
the volunteers. "I may not
be able to get out there
and paint anymore," she
said, "but I do what 1
can." -;
Community participa
tion is the backbone of the
program, and the West'
End is a community that
has united against its com
mon problems. A West
End Food Coop provides
fruits and vegetables to
residents at wholesale
prices. The- West End
"Clean-Up Squad" gets
idle youth involved in
neighborhood betterment
and provides supervised
activities and trips. During
the cold months, a
winterization program
teaches tenants how to im
provise storm windows
and otherwise block the
drafty holes of substan
dard housing. For the
fourth summer running,
on August 8, WECAG
will celebrate its year of
work with the annual
street fair, the "Phoenix
Festival."
Long concerned about
the condition of housing
in the West End, WECAG
has now turned to this
self-help project. With
continued support from
the private sector and
hands on assistance from
residents and churches,
project participants are
optimistic about the
results 'of this rehab ef
fort. "We don't intend to
stop," says James Portee,
project spokesman, "this
is project No. 1."
Ironically, as con
gressmen in Washington
cut funding for housing
programs ranging from
subsidized rent to mor
tgage and rehabilitation
loans, the West End in
Durham is swinging into
action. "Hey, 1 live in this
area, other people live in
this area," says Portee,
"we just can't afford to
let our community go unchanged."
Livingstone, Gets Grants
5" ' ": '.'"V " ' v ' " .:' '
For Computer Training
After The Dance Was Over
Following an exciting performance by the Chuck Davis Dance Company, during the American Dance Festival,
Durham Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma TheM Sorority, Inc., entertained members of the company, patrons and
friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand V. Allison. Pictured prior to arrival of the dancers are: Chapter
president Mrs. Betty L. Blackmon, Charles L. Rein hart, ADF president, the Allisons and ADF development direc
tor, Mrs. Stephanie S. Relnhart.
Durham Man To Receive Energy Grant
RALEIGH Gover
nor Jim Hunt announced
recently that Marvin J.
Carver, Jr. of Durham is
one of fourteen North
Carolina applicants
selected by the U.S.
Department of Energy to
receive funding for small
scale energy research and
development projects.
Carver will receive a grant
of $6,634 to develop a
more efficient heat pump.
The grant is part of the
Department of Energy's
Appropriate Technologies
Small Grants Program.
Designed to encourage the
development of , new
energy technologies, the
program awards grants of
up to $50,000 to in
dividuals and organiza
tions with new ideas for
saving or producing
energy.
"On behalf of all North
Carolinians, I want to
congratulate these four
teen grant recipients on
the fine work they have
done in planning these
small scale energy pro
jects," Hunt said in an
nouncing the awards.
"Together, they will
receive more than
$155,800 for the explora-'
tion of energy sources and
technologies appropriate
for use in North Carolina.
The results of their efforts
will help bring our state
one step closer to a secure
energy future."
Carver plans to build a
heat pump that uses
water, instead of outside
air in its heat transfer pro
cess. Ordinary heat pumps
cool a home by literally
transferring, or pumping
heat from air inside the
house. The home is warm
ed by reversing the pro
cess. For years engineers
have known that the pro
cess works more efficient
ly when outside water is'
used instead of outside
air. But the problem of
providing outside water
and disposing of it after
use has limited the use of
the water source heat
pump.
Carver plans to build
and test what he calls a
"closed loop" water
source heat pump that will
use a fixed supply of water
pumped through
underground pipes and a
storage tank. If the system
works it could be widely
used as an efficient
substitute for air-to-air
heat pumps.-
this year more than 200
Tarheel individuals and
organizations applied for
grants under the Ap
propriate Technologies
program. The Energy
Division of the North
Carolina Department of
Commerce screened the
applications and recom
mend fourteen to the
Department of Energy to
receive the $155,900
available to the state.
Knights Of Peter
Claver To Hold Confab
"We've Come This Far
By Faith", is the theme of
, the 66th Annual Conven
tion of the Knights and
Ladies' Auxiliary of Peter
Claver which will be held
at the Detroit Plaza Hotel
in Renaissance Center in
Detroit, July ,31, through
August 6.
The Knights and Ladies
Auxiliary of Peter Claver
is a Catholic organization
and has a membership of
over 20,000 and operates
in 22 states. It was found
ed in 1909 in Mobile,
Alabama.
Murry J. Frank of
Beaumont, Tx. is the
Supreme Knight. Mrs.
Elice LeNoir Morris of
Houston, Tx. is the
Supreme Lady of the
Ladies" Auxiliary, W.
Charles Keyes, Of New
Orleans, the Executive
Secretary is the Conven
tion CoordinatorJoseph
V. Lee of Detroit is
General Chairman.
Detroit Mayor Coleman
Young has been invited to
give the welcome to the
conventioneers at the na
tional banquet August 4.
Fr. Norman T. Thomas,
pastor of Sacred heart
Curch in Detroit will be
the. banquet speaker.
Richard Austin, Secretary
of the State of Michigan
will be a Dias guest. Other
jnvited Dias guests include
United States Represen
tatives John Conyers,
George Crockett, Mrs.
Rosa Parks, "Mother of
the Civil Rights Move
ment" and Mrs. Erma
Henderson, President of
the Detroit City Council.
The convention will
mark the first time the
newly inducted ladies of
Grace, Fourth Degree
Knights df peter 'ami
will convene. The Ladies
of Grace Division was in
itiated in February.
Reginald A. Rousan of
New Orleans, is the
SALISBURY Liv
ingstone ' ' College has
received three grants total
ing $105,425 for the
development of a com
puter center on campus, it
was announced last week
by; Dr. F. George Ship
; man, Livingstone presi
dent. '
According to Dr. Ship
man, "a gift of $47,675
; was, awarded to the college
from the Charles Stewart
,Mott Foundation to pro
vide training on com
puters to all students in
the college's division of
natural sciences." Dr.
Paul Baker, an assistant
professor' in; the
mathematics department
and Jim Patterson, direc
tor of development, were
instrumental in writing the
proposals and developing
the concepts to be in
tegrated into the college
curricula, with the
assistance of Dr. Olivia T. L
Spaulding, dean, of
Academic Affairs at the
college.
Dr. Baker developed a
project called
"LOCALISM," which
stands for "Literacy On
Computers At Livingstone
Supreme Navigator of the
Fourth Degree of Peter
Claver.
The Knights and
Ladies's Auxiliary of
Peter Claver supports
Xavier University in New
Orleans, NAACP, the
Sickle Cell Project at
Meharry Medical College
and gives the Thomas R.
Lee, Jr., Memorial
Scholarship and the Willie
Polk, Jr., Memorial
Scholarship to deserving
high school students.
In Science Matriculants."
, Ii was funded for $43,7.50
from the National Science
: - Foundation which enabled
: the college to purchase 32f
. microcomputer terminals.
); In addition,; a $14,000
Faculty Development
Grant was received, from
V the Jesse Smith ' Nbyes
Foundation to assist in
teaching computer literacy
and strengthen the com
puter center.
In addition to conven
tional training in com
puter languages, BASIC
and FORTRAN, students
will also learn how to app
ly computer technology to
a wide variety of practical,
real-life problems.
Through the combination
of computer languages
and computer problem
solving techniques, science
students at Livingstone
will be better prepared to
cope with our current
, computer-oriented socie
ty. .
Dr Baker stressed, "the
grants will allow us to
tremendously improve our
overall academic program
with computer based in
struction. Having a com
puter .center at the college '
should also attract, more
and better students into
the various scientific
fields."
"Today, the computer
is an instrument in every
aspect of our society,"
Dr. Shipman said, and
"the grants will be used to
enhance the skills and
understanding of com
puter literacy for our
students, faculty and
staff."
3 Noted Black Women
Featured In ESSENCE
YCC'ers Work And Learn At Museum Life - Science
"It's better than work
ing in an office," accor
ding to Frances Fellows as
ishc picks up her hard hat
fftd begins her fourth
week of shoveling dirt,
moving work, and poun
ding nails at the North
Carolina Museum of Life
and Science. Frances and
gtae other Durham youths
Dawn Bbwden, Bryant
Harrington, Gail Davis,
falter Gilchrist, James
Higgins, Philip Neal,
Frankie Owens, Darlene
Pettiford, and Carolyn
Pierce arc part of the
fight-week Youth Conser
vation Corp program be
ing held at the museum
this summer.) The non
residential program, sup
ported by a $14,000
federal grant, has been
established to accomplish
needed conservation work
on public land, to provide
gainful employment for
15-18 year old males and
females from all social,
economic, ethnic and
racial classifications, and
to develop an appreciation
for our nation's natural
environment and heritage
in the participating
youths.
The primary project to,
be accomplished this sum
mer is the renovation of
the museum's wildflower
trail. The trail is being
'rerouted and leveled to
1 J
mm
make it accessible to the
handicapped. A viewing
deck is also being built at
the top of the trail by the
group. "The work is hard,
but if done cooperatively,
npt impossible," says
Bryant Carrington, a
14-year-old student at
Brogden Junior High.
Cynthie Kulstad, the YCC
work project supervisor
and person responsible for
the museum grounds, is,
with the aid Of the
YCC'ers, carefully mov
ing plants that are located
along the edge of the trails
to be widened. Important
conservation lessons are
easily taught in the small
area which contains two
endangered species. Other
projects include the com
pletion of a small am
phitheater, and the
remodeling of the
museum's owl cage.
Thirty hours of the
YCC'ers week is devoted
to work projects and ten,
hours to environmental
learning. The environmen
tal awareness program is
designed to provide an
understanding of basic
ecological principles and
exposure to factors which
influence our usage of
natural resources. The
group will be making
maps of the wildflower
trail, learning how to use
plant identification keys,
and discussing various
ecological concepts, as
well as taking several field
trips, including an over
night trip to Hanging
Rock State Park.
' "This is one of the pro
grams in jeopardy of be
ing eliminated by the
federal government next
year. It's a shame because
this one has proved its
worth in past years, and
continues to do so," says
Ms. Phyllis Vandenberg, a
teacher at the museum
who is also responsible for
the YCC environmental
awareness program. Re
cent research indicates
that enrollees in the YCC
program benefit
significantly in a number
of different ways in
cluding increased
awareness and apprecia
tion of the environment,
improved work habits and
skills, improved ability to
get along with others, and
increased self-confidence.
Much of the museum's
trails were built with YCC
help.
Elastic garments pick up
oil readily from the body, so
they should be washed
frequently in hot or warm
water, depending on the
amount of soil, for four to six
minutes.
.i NEW YORK Three
women who have been
part of our lives Angela
Davis, Nikki Giovanni
and . Janet Cooke are
feursd i,n the . August
issue of Essence magazine.
Ten years after the
tumultous sixties, activist
Angela Davis is now a
professor at San Faran
cisco State University and
says she's still a revolu
tionary. In an exclusive in
terview she predicts that
"Black student movement
will equal if not surpass
the movement of the late
sixties, particularly with
Ronald Reagan in the
White House." Miss
Davis discusses among
other things, what she
.calls the "illusion of black
liberation" and predicts
an overall new mass move
ment in addition to the
student movement.
Ms. Nikki Giovanni
helped uplift many young,
aspiring black poets
through her example in
the sixties and early seven
ties. The Essence Contem
porary Living crew takes
you home with this pro
lific poet for a glimpse at
her life today, living with
her parents. Fixing up the
house has been Nikki's
"new work in progress"
for the past couple of
years. She has carved out'
a living and working space
in the home and talks
.about how more women
can take the initiative to
make repairs and renova
tions. And a story that came
into all of our homes
recently, the saga of Janet
Cooke, is discussed by
Marcia Ann Gillespie. Ms.
Cooke, a black woman
and former reporter for
the Washington Post, was
forced to return the
Pulitzer Prize that- she
won after it was
discovered that her feature
story, "Jimmy's World,"
had been fabricated. From
her perspective as a black
woman and a journahV.
Ms. Gillespie analyzes i!
issue as larger than ji-i
Cooke and w
Washington Post. S;v.
writes about the hunger u
succeed and how it shapes
and warps our lives. "The
drive for success An be
especially dangerous for
blacks."
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